Subject: bug#39554: 27.0.50; cairo not composing sequences

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 22:24:44 +0200

> From: James Cloos <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:16:39 -0500
> 
> It does work correctly when i turn on variable-pitch-mode, which here is
> set to use DejaVu Serif.
> 
> But xft does fine with DejaVu Sans Mono.
> 
> This bug remains a regression and requires a fix.

I don't think I agree.  This font has problems with combining accents,
see this discussion:

  https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/2019-August/007422.html